Example sentences of "something [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 3 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 4 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 5 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 6 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 7 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 8 | As marriage partners view themselves with regard to the prospect of being loved there is something to be said for considering the phileo model . |
| 9 | It is , first of all , the only view according to the internal constitutional laws of the Dominions affected , and there is something to be said for avoiding conflicts of constitutional laws . |
| 10 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 11 | While this ambiguity worried socialist doctrinaires , there was something to be said for leaving the question open , since nobody actually knew how capitalism would respond in practice to a determined reforming government , and meanwhile the ambiguity would tend to maximize the breadth of support for the programme . |
| 12 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 13 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 14 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 15 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 16 | There is something to be said for having a well-fed appearance . ’ |
| 17 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 18 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 19 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 20 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation . |
| 22 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 23 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 24 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 25 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 26 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
| 27 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 28 | The soft woods ; pine , spruce or larch are rather vulgar ; but there is something to be said for a really old vintage larch root . |
| 29 | No doubt there is something to be said for beginning this task all over again , and for using a new technique for the purpose . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |